A hit checks in excessive overall performance oven

At some stage in their experiments, researchers stored things simple with the aid of the usage of a high overall performance oven on the ETH in location of sun power. "in the test phase, the actual source of thermal power is immaterial," explains Matthäus Rothensteiner, PhD-candidate at the PSI and the ETH Zurich whose location of responsibility included those tests.

Jeroen van Bokhoven, head of the PSI's Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry and Professor for Heterogeneous Catalysis at the ETH Zurich adds: "those tests enabled us to benefit precious insights into the catalyst's lengthy-term stability. Our excessive performance oven allowed us to carry out 59 cycles in quick succession. Our cloth has with no trouble survived its first endurance take a look at." Having proven that their process is viable in precept, researchers can now devote themselves to its optimization.